Edible Landscaping: Foodscaping and Permaculture for Urban Gardeners: The Hungry Garden, #2

By Rosefiend Cordell

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Rosefiend Publishing
• Release date: Jan 20, 2022
• ISBN: 9781953196521

Rosefiend Cordell

This is the gardening pen name for Melinda R. Cordell. Former city horticulturist, rose garden potentate, greenhouse manager, perennials factotum, landscape designer, and small-time naturalist. I've been working in horticulture in one way or another since 1989. These days I write gardening books because my body makes cartoon noises when I move, and I really like air-conditioning. Good times!

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EDIBLE LANDSCAPING

EDIBLE LANDSCAPING

Foodscaping and Permaculture

for Urban Gardeners

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The Hungry Garden series #2

Rosefiend Cordell

Rosefiend Publishing.

EDIBLE LANDSCAPING

Copyright © 2020 by Rosefiend Cordell, aka Melinda R. Cordell

All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Rosefiend Publishing. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews; nor may any part of this book be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means – electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, alien transfer, ESP, or other – without written permission from the publisher.

The information in this book is true and complete to the best of our knowledge at proof time. Although the author has made every effort to ensure that the information in the book was correct at press time, the author does not assume and hereby disclaims any liability to any part for any loss, damage, or disruption caused by errors or omissions, whether such errors or omissions result from murder hornets, dinosaurs revived from ancient DNA because what could possibly go wrong, ‘roid rage, brain-eating amoebas, rodents of unusual size, man-eating spiders, mummy penguin apocalypses, robber crab invasions, Gundam robots, exploding trees, forest cities, or stress-based procrastination.

P.S. Wear a mask! Wash your hands! <3

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Cover design by Melinda R. Cordell

Book formatting by Melinda R. Cordell

ISBN: 978-1-953196-52-1

First Edition: October 2020

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The Hungry Garden Series

Big Yields, Little Pots – Container Gardening for the Creative Gardener

Book 1

Edible Landscaping – Foodscaping and Permaculture for Urban Gardeners

Book 2

Beneficial and Pest Insects – The Good, the Bad, and the Hungry

Book 3

Indoor Gardening – Growing Herbs, Greens, & Vegetables Under Lights

Book 4

FORTHCOMING BOOKS!

Growing a Food Forest – Trees, Shrubs, & Perennials That’ll Feed Ya!

Book 5

Wildscaping – Using Native Food Plants to Create an Ecologically-Friendly Garden

Book 6

Survival Rations! – Foraging in Wild Spaces for Greens, Berries, & Nuts

Book 7

Victory Gardens – We Can Grow It!

Book 8

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Edible Landscaping: Foodscaping and Permaculture for Urban Gardeners

Liberate your food plants from the vegetable garden! Landscape your living space so it offers food for the eyes, heart, and stomach.

Edible Landscaping: Foodscaping and Permaculture for Urban Gardeners is a how-to gardening manual written by a hard-boiled former horticulturist who hates weeding with the heat of a million suns. Rosefiend Cordell takes the budding gardener on a step-by-step process to transform their sad yard into a merry garden full of ornamental flowers linking arms with tomatoes, herbs, and edible flowers, as well as good fruit and nut trees.

This gardening book features practical gardening methods that help you create a design to build the outdoor living space you want.

Information on foodscaping and permaculture, and how these techniques can help you to build the soil, prepare a garden design, and walks you through a host of food plants that can blend neatly into an ornamental border.

Create a mixed border that cuddles herbs, edible flowers, vegetables, ornamental plants, and fruits together in harmony.

It doesn’t matter if you have a brown thumb or a green thumb. Whether you live in the city, the suburbs, or way out in the sticks, this handy-dandy manual will teach you how to make the best use of the space you have while opening your eyes to a great old way of gardening that’s beautiful, tasty, and deeply satisfying.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION

Ornamentals and Vegetables:

Two Old Favorites Together

PLANNING AND PREPARATION

Homeowners Associations and Zoning Laws

Preparing the Soil

Invest in the Garden Before You Plant

Walkways

You Can’t Eat Lawns

Principles for Good Edible Landscape Design

Gardening with Wildlife

Invite Pollinators to Your Garden

GARDEN DESIGN ... AND YOU

On Creativity

Design Basics

Year-Round Gardening

Succession Planting

Uses of Landscape Plants in Garden Design

GARDEN ANNUALS

Leafy Greens

Grains

Ornamentals

Vines

GARDEN PERENNIALS

TREES

Nut Trees

Fruit Trees

SHRUBS

Blueberries

Lingonberries

Cornelian Cherry

Raspberries

HERBS AND EDIBLE FLOWERS

Herbs

Edible Flowers

A PREVIEW OF THE EASY-GROWING GARDENING SERIES

USDA PLANT HARDINESS ZONE MAP

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

INTRODUCTION

Ornamentals and Vegetables:

Two Old Favorites Together

When I was a budding horticulturist (yes, that pun was intentional, sorry), I drew landscape designs for a small installation company. I was mainly a landscape installer, working in the field, moving river rock in the hot sun, helping with sprinkler installation, planting trees in subdivision soil (that clay gunk that was